Head of IBM's New Artificial-Intelligence Group Leaves
February 10 2016 - 12:40PM
Dow Jones News
The head of International Business Machines Corp.'s newly formed
Cognitive Business Solutions group left the company after just
months on the job.
Stephen Pratt confirmed his departure but declined to say why he
left IBM or what he would do next.
"IBM is a great company with great people and a bright future in
cognitive computing," he said.
IBM launched the 2,000-person Cognitive Business Solutions group
in October with Pratt as its leader, saying the unit would focus on
selling data analytics and artificial intelligence services to
business customers.
"We have no comment on personnel matters," an IBM spokesman
said.
IBM's revenue has taken a hit as its corporate customers shift
their buying habits toward software and services delivered through
the Internet. The company has bet its future on new-breed offerings
including the artificial-intelligence and analytics services sold
by Mr. Pratt's group.
"We see that that is going mainstream," Bridget van Kralingen,
senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, said in
October. "It's very, very early days, but we can see it."
Mr. Pratt previously served as an executive at Indian
outsourcing firm Infosys Ltd. Before signing on at IBM in mid-2015,
he had been an executive in residence at the investment firm TPG
Capital.
Write to Robert McMillan at Robert.Mcmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
February 10, 2016 12:25 ET (17:25 GMT)
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